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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






2. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






3. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






4. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






5. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






6. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






7. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






8. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






9. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






10. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






11. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






12. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






13. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






14. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






15. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






16. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






17. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






18. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






19. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






20. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






21. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






22. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






23. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






24. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






25. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






26. A strong pause within a line.






27. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






28. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






29. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






30. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






31. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






32. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






33. A poem that tells a story.






34. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






35. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






36. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






37. What a story or play is about.






38. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






39. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






40. The time and place of a story or play.






41. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






42. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






43. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






44. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






45. The dictionary meaning of a word.






46. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






47. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






48. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






49. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






50. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.